THE N W YORKER ticular or to the Supreme Court in gen- eral is that no direct action by the Court has ever had any signIficant bearing in either stopping or slowing a repres- sion," he said. Going on to list some of these-the Alien and Sedition Acts, anti-Mason scares, Know-Noth- ing threats, fear of anarchism, alarm over espionage and Bolshevism, and McCarthyism-he pointed OUt that the Court had done nothing about any of them. "The dominant lesson of our history In the relation of the judiciary to repreSSIons is that courts love liberty most when it is under pressure least," he said, and added, "The great ines- capable fact is that in a century and a half no substantial restriction on liberty has yet been invalidated." The \Varren Court had only recent- Iv been formed when Professor Frank spoke, and it wasn't until the spring of 1954 that it delivered its unanimous opinion ordering the desegregation of public schools. That decision and sub- sequent rulings on criminal-Iav{ pro- cedures-the GIdeon, Mapp, Wade, Mallory, Escobedo, and Miranda cases in particular-could be said to have certainly invalidated substantia] restric- tions on liberty. Still, those restrIctIons were the product of age-old racial and class suppression rather than the con- vulsive pressures Frank referred to. Even so, over the years the Warren Court's decisions in these areas were sufficiently far out of the mainstream to set the Court up as a target-an enemy of society, so to speak-for the right wing. Stirred up by cries of trea- son and demands for the Impeachment of the Chief Justice, the right wing marched off to join ItS greatest crusdde since it followed Barry Goldwater over a cliff. Although the move to impeach the Chief Justice was futilely absurd, it served to keep the band together while 1 ecruits were enlisted. And by the time an army of irate citizens had joined up, politicians who occupied less extreme positions than those held by the crack- pot wing must have wondered what might be done with such dn immense force and its restlessness over race and crime. (It has been said that during the 1968 Presidential race one of Mr. Nixon's fears was that President] ohn- son would choose a well-known judi- cial conservative of impeccable standing to succeed Warren. From the right wing's point of view, the choice of Abe Fortas was ideal, for now anti-Semitism could he added to what was basically a racist crusade anyway.) As millions of people became dIsenchanted with the Supreme Court, its members were al- most certain, if Professor Frank was I . 51 I I . . I I . I . I I I . e e . I , . I I e I I e I I I I I e ..:: ::. ..{ "-..; ....:. ':f j. , Mi t '. í . t . AJ 1'!,... ;OF < >. .,' , "i' .': "'. t . . .af: . "*i f.:. Not that we have anything against pizza stands or plastic arches or aim- lessly sprawling discount stores or anything like that. They're fine in their place. Their place, however, is not Quechee Lakes, Yermont. Quechee Lakes,-Yermont, is a private world that's nearly 6000 acres big. And yet in that whole world, there's not a single inch of room for anything unlovely. In fact, almost half of those 6000 acres are not even for sale. They will, instead, remain what they are. Mead- ows. Woods for riding, hiking, explor- ing. Hills for wandering in summer, skiing in winter. A 2700-foot, private, double-chair ski lift. A championship golf course. And, when we are com- pleted, lakes and ponds for swimming, sailing, fishing. A club house with all kinds of facilities. A year-round pool. And more. The land that is for sale IS purely for living. Farmsteads and homesites. Country condominiums. For vaca- tions and weekends. Quechee Lakes is a beautiful place. Yet it is in the future that this com- munity will prove its true worth. For It will remain beautiful. Unspoiled and unexploited. For you. For your chil- dren. And for your children s children. As for the pizza stands and plastic palaces of the world, they too will always have a home somewhere. But we promise that it won't be anywhere near yours. r --------------- l 72NYI Quechee Lakes Quechee, Vermont 05059 I would lIke to know more about Quechee Lakes, Vermont. Without obligation, of course. NAME_ ADDRESSS_ CITY _ STATE _ZIP Quechee Lakes, Vermont. Quechee Lakes is a part of CNA FINANCIAL Corporatlon L_ iili f : ili eeb nOO _J This offering is not avaIlable where prohibited by state law.